Viewing SSRS report in Safari, Chrome, Firefox browsers

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Viewing SSRS report in Safari, Chrome, Firefox browsers

Ganesh Lohani

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May 20, 2014 at 10:19 am

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Hi All,
When I run SSRS reports in google chrome I get the blank screen. Does anyone know how to fix this issue? I am using SSRS 2012 environment and I am running reports from Report Manager. I need to conform if the reports can be run in Safari, Chrome, Firefox browsers. Any comments/feedbacks would be appreciated.
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Ganesh

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Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 1

I've never seen that issue. I can view reports in Chrome, although they don't render that well.

When you say blank screen, do you mean you don't even see the parameters pane and the view report button?

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Polymorphist SSCommitted Points: 1909 More actions · Answer 2

My experience has been that it's best to have your users view SSRS reports in Internet Explorer. In most cases reports were okay in Firefox, but even then sometimes things would go wonky. I know it sucks, but your best bet is IE.

Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259115 More actions · Answer 3

Here's an overview:

Planning for Reporting Services and Power View Browser Support (SSRS 2014)

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ndiro SSC Eights! Points: 892 More actions · Answer 4

You can do it with some limitations. You have to chage Reprting Services css. Take a lokk at:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5428017/cannot-view-ssrs-2008-r2-ssrs-2012-reports-in-safari-chrome-but-works-fine-in

and

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5968082/ssrs-2008-r2-ssrs-2012-reports-are-blank-in-safari-and-chrome

TL SSC-Addicted Points: 470 More actions · Answer 5

Per Microsoft, Chrome is not supported with SSRS2012. It is supported starting with SSRS2014 when running on Windows. See the "Browser Requirements for Viewing Reports" in the links below:

SQL 2012

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms156511(v=sql.110).aspx#bkmk_reportviewer

SQL 2014

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms156511(v=sql.120).aspx#bkmk_reportviewer

eric.muller SSCommitted Points: 1998 More actions · Answer 6

It is for this very reason that I've installed the IE Tab plugin for Chrome. Check it out, it's just a button click to get a tab to render as IE, perfect for reports.

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eric.muller (6/3/2014)
It is for this very reason that I've installed the IE Tab plugin for Chrome. Check it out, it's just a button click to get a tab to render as IE, perfect for reports.

I had something similar for Firefox back in the day, very useful indeed.

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eric.muller (6/3/2014)
It is for this very reason that I've installed the IE Tab plugin for Chrome. Check it out, it's just a button click to get a tab to render as IE, perfect for reports.

Very nice, indeed! Thanks for sharing.

thomashohner SSCrazy Eights Points: 9856 More actions · Answer 9

Wow that plugin even does Active X. That's great because without Active X you cant print your reports.

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